re: Avenger: AoU Reviews (**MAJOR SPOILERS**)

Everyone keeps talking about the Director's cut. Which btw, does sound amazing. My question is, anyone else find it insulting that they do with kind of stuff? It is like they think that they have to take care of us by not forcing us to sit in a movie theater too long. We want to watch the movie the way it is supposed to be, the way it was written. Give us that movie! Overseas markets for it, at least, they got more than we did.

Why cants we haz?!

Who makes the decision that the movie can't be 3 hours? The studio? Theater contracts? Some woman throwing beads over a blanket and reading an exec's future earnings from the blue one with the red tinge that is shaped like a tooth?

Is it simply to allow staggered movie times without throwing off the average theater's nightly show times? When I was at Carmike there was a strange science behind movie scheduling, and each theater schedules the week for themselves. It isn't a corporate mandate. It is complicated stuff scheduling a stream of human walkers, for an hour and a half stream of concession revenue, by using staggered start times. Then having that schedule fully repeat itself 3 or 4 times on a weekend night.

Or is it to make sure you get as many people in as you can over a weekend? Because 3 hours vs 2 hours means less tickets sold due to fewer overall viewings available. Except with a movie like AoU every theater would pay the licensing to have it in an extra house. Therebye increasing revenue over all, or at least breaking even, while still selling the product as was originally intended.

The last 3 hour movie I watched in a movie theater was.....Return of the King I think. It was incredibly successful, while not trying to squish and hyper edit everything into a suit 1.5 sizes too small.

Oh wait, I forgot. It is to increase Blu Ray, DD, and DVD sales after it is out of theater's. Oh, you wanted too see that? Toooooooooooo bad.

Would like to point out the RoTK still had an even longer director's, so they had it both ways.

Edit: This is just for good measure. I want someone to have a conversation breaking down that damned AI with me. Outside of Hulk smash. It was the part that interested me the most. Not sure if y'all get that from my posts in this thread. Mentioned it once, or twice, or....I dunno, 15 times.